What We Do

Case Study: RockSho Concept to Reality

RockSho approached us with a rough sketch of their proposed concert calendar for their new site RockSho.com. Users will have their concerts available in a 3D panel system that allows them to select any month or shift-select various months. Events are added and removed through calls to a javascript/AJAX function on the page, avoiding page reloads on quick updates. Taking advantage of native 3D capabilities in Flash Player 10 using ActionScript 3, we completed this project in about 3 weeks.

Articles & Tutorials

How to Shimmer Water (Water Ripple Effect)

The classic water ripple effect, when used sparingly, can create waves with a dead calm banner design... more»

Making Images in TextFields Clickable

When loading html into TextField, <img> tags can act strange. Using a few tricks, these images can be treated like normal MovieClips... more»

Interactive Resources

The fastest poker hands evaluator ever

Few months ago I've been working in a project where I had to validate poker hands (based on 5 cards) and also calculate ... more»

Two Minute Introduction to the Flint Particle System library

The Flint Particle System Actionscript library for Flash and Flex is an easy and powerful way of animating large groups... more»

Amethyst Professional - The Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio

Hartland, UK - August 26, 2010 - SapphireSteel Software, http://www.sapphiresteel.com, specialists in development enviro... more»

Weaverant Content Management System made for Adobe Flash developers Beta Announced

Weaverant™ is a Content Management System made for Adobe Flash developers and their clients.... more»

Adobe announces 2010 Layer Tennis design tournament

Adobe today announced that the 2010 Layer Tennis design tournament will kick off this Friday, August 20, at 2 p.m. Easte... more»

Business & The Internet

Should We Still Use Flash?

This is a fair question, but you probably should be less concerned about what you want and more focused on what your customers want. And that 'thing' is not necessarily Flash... more»

Clicktags in AS 2.0 and AS 3.0

ClickTags should be easy... but they are not so simple. Firstly, because some ads built for polite loading require a parent swf... more»